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Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is a very small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 1,742 people and just one neighborhood, Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is the 84th largest community in New Mexico.
Occupations and Workforce
Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca who work in office and administrative support (15.47%), teaching (9.70%), and healthcare suport services (7.74%).
Of important note, Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is also a town of artists. Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca’s character.
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
Also of interest is that Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 18.65% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Setting & Lifestyle
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca, the average commute to work is 33.58 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Demographics
The overall education level of Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.23% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca in 2022 was $33,700, which is upper middle income relative to New Mexico, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $134,800 for a family of four. However, Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 31.72% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Scandinavian.
The most common language spoken in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is Native American languages. Other important languages spoken here include English and Spanish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Real Estate
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Car Ownership
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 38.7% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.8% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Occupations
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 36.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 31.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
The Neighbors
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 38.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.4%), and 16.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 55.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (36.9%). There are also a number of people of Spanish ancestry (17.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (9.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.9%), among others.
Getting to Work
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (71.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (7.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
